Lost media? - Forum - Virtual Popstar

CrystalDarkPinkie
Streetmusician

CrystalDarkPinkie wrote:
Does anyone have a lost media on hunt?

Private
National star

Sylvan wrote:
A what on what

BunnyButts
International star

BunnyButts wrote:
huh

Drapetomania
National star

Drapetomania wrote:
Anyone have a what?

ArianaGrande
National star

ArianaGrande wrote:
my deleted vp threads are my lost media

BunnyButts
International star

BunnyButts wrote:

Alaasikaq wrote:
my deleted vp threads are my lost media

ur my favorite lost media

ArianaGrande
National star

ArianaGrande wrote:

BunnyButts wrote:

Alaasikaq wrote:
my deleted vp threads are my lost media

ur my favorite lost media

CrystalDarkPinkie
Streetmusician

CrystalDarkPinkie wrote:

Alaasikaq wrote:

BunnyButts wrote:

Alaasikaq wrote:
my deleted vp threads are my lost media

ur my favorite lost media

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Private
World famous

Barbarella wrote:
Here I come BREAKIN DOWN THE DOOR LIKE
"did someone say LOST MEDIA!?"

did you know that it's estimated that 90% of all silent films are lost? 😭

BunnyButts
International star

BunnyButts wrote:

Barbarella wrote:
Here I come BREAKIN DOWN THE DOOR LIKE
"did someone say LOST MEDIA!?"

did you know that it's estimated that 90% of all silent films are lost? 😭

I bet it was the nazis

Annie
National star

Annie wrote:
why do i see people talk about lost media everywhere all of a sudden

Private
World famous

Barbarella wrote:

BunnyButts wrote:

Barbarella wrote:
Here I come BREAKIN DOWN THE DOOR LIKE
"did someone say LOST MEDIA!?"

did you know that it's estimated that 90% of all silent films are lost? 😭

I bet it was the nazis

I mean there were a lot of factors involved.
The filmstock of the era was super unstable (it had a super cute habit of catching-the-fuck-on-fire)
There were moralistic groups that liked to set fire to subversive/social films (usually women's groups, church groups, and I think the American legion)
No one expected anyone to care, so they destroyed them to make space (you gotta think of how many silent films were just newsreels, so no one thought to archive them)
A lot of filmmakers at the time didn't have the means to store their prints for preservation, so they were at the mercy of film vaults, which sometimes didn't have the space (and also sometimes they just spontaneously caught on fire) - wealthier filmmakers and film stars tended to be able to hold onto prints better than others.
Also some of the movies, just like today, fucking SUCKED and no one gave a shit what happened to them.

I could go on and on lol
it's one of my special interests

Private
World famous

Barbarella wrote:

Annie wrote:
why do i see people talk about lost media everywhere all of a sudden

I think because it's wild to think of now, living in an era where everything is archived, and almost never lost, with the power of the internet - but it used to be pretty common to completely lose the only remaining copy of something.

BunnyButts
International star

BunnyButts wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

BunnyButts wrote:

Barbarella wrote:
Here I come BREAKIN DOWN THE DOOR LIKE
"did someone say LOST MEDIA!?"

did you know that it's estimated that 90% of all silent films are lost? 😭

I bet it was the nazis

I mean there were a lot of factors involved.
The filmstock of the era was super unstable (it had a super cute habit of catching-the-fuck-on-fire)
There were moralistic groups that liked to set fire to subversive/social films (usually women's groups, church groups, and I think the American legion)
No one expected anyone to care, so they destroyed them to make space (you gotta think of how many silent films were just newsreels, so no one thought to archive them)
A lot of filmmakers at the time didn't have the means to store their prints for preservation, so they were at the mercy of film vaults, which sometimes didn't have the space (and also sometimes they just spontaneously caught on fire) - wealthier filmmakers and film stars tended to be able to hold onto prints better than others.
Also some of the movies, just like today, fucking SUCKED and no one gave a shit what happened to them.

I could go on and on lol
it's one of my special interests

Plssss I love film

Annie
National star

Annie wrote:
my lost media hunt is this one game i played as a kid where this family went on vacation with their flying car and it was a 3d side scrolling platformer and in one scene youre the mom in the supermarket dodging monkeys n stuff

Private
World famous

Barbarella wrote:

BunnyButts wrote:

Barbarella wrote:

BunnyButts wrote:
I bet it was the nazis

I mean there were a lot of factors involved.
The filmstock of the era was super unstable (it had a super cute habit of catching-the-fuck-on-fire)
There were moralistic groups that liked to set fire to subversive/social films (usually women's groups, church groups, and I think the American legion)
No one expected anyone to care, so they destroyed them to make space (you gotta think of how many silent films were just newsreels, so no one thought to archive them)
A lot of filmmakers at the time didn't have the means to store their prints for preservation, so they were at the mercy of film vaults, which sometimes didn't have the space (and also sometimes they just spontaneously caught on fire) - wealthier filmmakers and film stars tended to be able to hold onto prints better than others.
Also some of the movies, just like today, fucking SUCKED and no one gave a shit what happened to them.

I could go on and on lol
it's one of my special interests

Plssss I love film

There's a cool documentary about a bunch of silent films they literally excavated (maybe still are excavating?) from a frozen pool-turned-ice-rink in Canada called Dawson City: Frozen Time.